Tinubu, nationwide chief of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has gained the favored vote within the disputed election.
Bola Tinubu, the politician lengthy heralded because the “father of recent Lagos”, has gained a good race to succeed Muhammadu Buhari as the following president of Nigeria.
Tinubu, “having glad the necessities of the regulation, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected”, Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC), introduced early on Wednesday.
Tinubu polled 8.8 million votes to defeat former-associate-turned-foe Atiku Abubakar and shock frontrunner Peter Obi, who scored 6.9 million and 6.1 million, respectively, to emerge president hours after three opposition events known as for a cancellation of what they known as a “sham” of an election.
“It is a severe mandate – I hereby settle for it. To serve you… To work with you and make Nigeria nice,” Tinubu stated as supporters cheered “Jagaban”, an area chieftain title.
“I attraction to my fellow contestants to allow us to crew collectively. It's the solely nation now we have. It's one nation that we should construct collectively,” he added.
The previous two-term governor of Lagos, seen as essentially the most influential political godfather in present Nigerian historical past, misplaced his residence state of Lagos to Obi however was in the end profitable in his bid to turn out to be Nigeria’s fifth president because the return of democracy in 1999.
His rise to fame started in 1992 when he was elected senator in Lagos. When the presidential elections had been cancelled a 12 months after by the navy authorities, he joined a coalition of politicians and civil society to name for brand new elections.
“He has performed it earlier than, and we all know that he'll do higher than what he did in Lagos,” stated supporter Adenike Mutiat Abubakar, 43. “He’s the person of the folks, in order that’s why everyone desires him.”
Tinubu’s magnum opus got here in 2015 when his Motion Congress of Nigeria (ACN) merged with Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) to type the All Progressives Congress (APC) that unseated incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan.
Political pundits speculated it was solely a matter of time earlier than Tinubu launched an try to say the presidency for himself, ensuing within the “Emi lokan” (Yoruba for “it’s my flip”) slogan that got here to outline his marketing campaign.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Folks’s Democratic Occasion (PDP), Labour Occasion (LP) and African Democratic Congress (CDC) had staged a press convention calling for the cancellation of the election outcomes, saying the ballot was a “sham” and merely “vote allocation and never collation”.
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